3rd Circ. Asks NJ To Define 'Unreasonable' Gunmaker Conduct

By George Woolston

The Third Circuit on Tuesday appeared skeptical of the state of New Jersey's position that The National Shooting Sports Foundation still lacked standing as it tries to renew its challenge of a Garden State law allowing it to sue gunmakers for endangering public safety, questioning what exactly is impermissible under broad statutory language like "unreasonable" conduct.

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NJ Sues GEO Group Over Denial Of Detention Center Access

By Madeline Lyskawa

New Jersey sued the owner and operator of immigration detention center Delaney Hall in state court on Tuesday, accusing the contractor of violating state law by blocking health officials from inspecting the center.

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Ex-NJ Mayor Gets 1 Year For Mortgage Fraud

By Isaac Monterose

A former New Jersey mayor and local lawmaker will spend one year and a day in prison after being convicted by a jury in federal court for a mortgage fraud scheme that involved a property short sale, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced.

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Fox Rothschild Atty Censured Over $2.7M In Unapproved Fees

By Adrian Cruz

A New Jersey-based bankruptcy partner at Fox Rothschild LLP has been censured by the Supreme Court of New Jersey after she was found to have wrongfully disbursed over $2.7 million in fees to her former firms without approval.

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Samsung Follows Exxon From NJ To Texas

By Nate Beck

After less than a year in a new building in New Jersey, Samsung said it plans to move its headquarters to Texas by the end of 2026, wrapping up a more than 40-year run of corporate residency in the Garden State.

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Panel Unsure Lowenstein Missed Deadline In Pot Biz Fee Row

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey appellate panel on Tuesday questioned if Lowenstein Sandler LLP ever filed the amended complaint that would trigger the allegedly missed deadline that Trif & Modugno LLC says is fatal to Lowenstein Sandler's bid for $750,000 in unpaid fees from a failed cannabis venture.

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Generics Makers Tell 3rd Circ. Buyers Too Few For Class

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Two pharmaceutical companies embroiled in decadelong litigation over the alleged price-fixing of generic drugs told a Third Circuit panel on Tuesday that groups of drug buyers either didn't have the numbers necessary to support class certification or were not clearly identifiable.

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Dem AGs Slam Climate Science Removal From Judicial Guide

By Jack Karp

The federal judiciary's decision to strike a chapter on climate change from its guide to scientific evidence is misguided, partisan and "will impede the judiciary's ability to pursue truth," according to a Tuesday letter from nearly two dozen Democratic state attorneys general.

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Justices Urged To Address Tax Fraud Deadline Split

By Kat Lucero

A woman urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to reconcile the appellate courts' split over the period to assess taxes against a taxpayer in cases when a third party commits fraud, saying the IRS even admitted that the conflict creates "intolerable results."

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Trump Admin Sued For Canceling Offshore Wind Lease

By Tom Lotshaw

A coalition of Northeast states urged a D.C. federal judge Tuesday to overturn the Trump administration's decision to cancel an offshore wind lease and reimburse its owner for nearly $800 million of oil and gas investments instead.

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'Citizenship Lists' For Mail Voting Worry Mass. Judge

By Carolyn Muyskens

A federal judge in Boston had tough questions on Tuesday for a lawyer defending President Donald Trump's executive order tightening mail voting rules, flagging concerns that voters could be disenfranchised by the changes.

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OneMain Says States' Loan Add-On Suit Retreads CFPB Order

By Jon Hill

Installment lender OneMain has urged a New York federal court to dismiss a multistate lawsuit over its loan add-on product sales, arguing the case improperly seeks to punish it for practices either already addressed in or required by a prior Consumer Financial Protection Bureau order.

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ITC To Review Drink Sellers' Imports After Monster Claims

By Elliot Weld

The U.S. International Trade Commission said Tuesday it would review imports from 13 companies for potential violations after energy drink giant Monster Energy Co. claimed they were importing versions of its products that were intended to be sold abroad only.

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2 'Rocket Dockets' And The Rules That Propel Them

The fastest civil trial courts in the country are currently in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Florida, and their chief judges provide insights into the court rules that keep them ahead, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Dardarian Ho's Linda Dardarian

By Lynn LaRowe

Despite being on the other side of a disability rights case that will cost his municipality at least $150 million, Kevin McLaughlin, city attorney for Oakland, California, believes that if more lawyers were like Linda Dardarian, there would be far less lamenting about civility in the legal profession.

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Hueston Hennigan Follows Milbank's Lead In Associate Pay

By Tracey Read

The race to match Milbank LLP's attorney pay hikes is officially on, with trial firm Hueston Hennigan the latest to announce it will increase associate pay by $10,000 to $20,000 annually.

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Graham Pushes Federal Tort Path After DOJ Drops $1.8B Fund

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Department of Justice seemed, at least briefly, to support a Republican senator's alternative solution to the "anti-weaponization" $1.8 billion fund that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday the department is abandoning.

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Crowell Unveils DC Office In Revamped Former Metro HQ

By Alison Knezevich

Crowell & Moring LLP has a new home in the nation's capital, with the firm announcing Wednesday it has moved its D.C. office to the redeveloped former Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority headquarters.

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BigLaw Insider Trading Defendants Have Big-Name Legal Help

By Chris Villani

An insider trading case involving nonpublic information prosecutors say was stolen from some of the largest law firms in the U.S. has ensnared more than two dozen defendants, many of whom have turned to lawyers with notable clients including Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and Luigi Mangione.

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Rocade Capital Buys LFG To Create Combined $2B Lit Funder

By Ryan Boysen

Rocade Capital LLC has acquired fellow litigation funder Law Finance Group LLC, creating a combined platform that has deployed more than $2.3 billion and specializes in $10 to $50 million deals, including post-judgment financing, portfolio deals and lending to plaintiff's firms.

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DOJ Sets New Healthcare Fraud Convictions Record

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that its Health Care Fraud Unit secured six jury trial convictions across the country in less than three weeks, with the cases involving more than $1.1 billion in fraud losses.

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'Read The Cases': Conn. Judge Offers AI Advice To Attys

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge told a gathering of attorneys Tuesday that his law clerks are not allowed to use generative artificial intelligence for any purpose involving legal research, his interns are barred from using it at all, and lawyers must be careful when relying on the material that the tools produce.

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Court Reporter Shortage A 'Crisis,' Calif. Supreme Court Told

By Bonnie Eslinger

Two legal nonprofits urged the California Supreme Court to issue an order entitling low-income civil litigants to electronic recording if a live court reporter is not available, saying at a hearing Wednesday that a court reporter shortage in the Golden State has created a "crisis."

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Colo. Firm Accused Of Giving Bad Immigration Filing Advice

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado personal injury law firm gave faulty legal advice to two clients regarding the filing of their immigration documents and caused them to lose their ability to lawfully work in the United States, the former clients alleged in Colorado state court.

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